The 2014 Wired 100

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We've surveyed 200 experts to identify Europe's top digital
influencers. From superangels to startup heroes, the list
represents the definitive survey of the people shaping the world
around us.

Munich-based brothers Marc, Oliver and Alexander Samwer are
polarising figures, but no european has a better record at scaling
startups. Since selling Jamster in 2004, their Rocket Internet
incubator has continued to pump out high-growth clones of business
ranging from Zappos to Airbnb.

03: Edward SnowdenWhistleblower, Moscow

When Edward Snowden relocated to Russia, he made himself
eligible for this list. No one in digital had a bigger effect last
year -- evidenced by President Obama's announcement of reforms at
the National Security Agency. News that GCHQ monitored German
government telecoms proved awkward for David Cameron.

Robin Klein has been an investor in the London tech scene for
over a decade. One of the first investors in LOVEFiLM (sold to
amazon for £200m, in 2011), he has backed Moo.com, Zoopla, Mind
Candy Songkick and Tweetdeck.

When his games company Supercell started earning £1.5m a day,
Ilkka Paananen began calling himself the "world's least powerful
CEO". Last october he sold 51 percent of the company he founded in
2010 to Japanese telco SoftBank, valuing his firm at £1.8
billion.

Not just the most popular Pope in history, he's also an astute
social-media star. Last summer, he offered "indulgences" to his
Twitter followers and made the first Papal selfie. His Twitter
account, @Pontifex, has
more than 3.6 million followers. The Pope tweets in nine languages
in all, including Arabic.

07: Yuri MilnerFounder Mail.ru/Investor, California/Moscow

The Russian entrepreneur founded one of Russia's biggest
internet companies, DST (now Mail.ru Group), and was an early
investor in Facebook, Zynga, Twitter and SPotify. Recently Milner
has been funding healthcare startups and has invested in mobile
phone maker Xiaomi.

08: Martin VarsavskyEntrepreneur/Investor, Madrid/Menorca

Varsavsky's family fled Argentina to New York to escape the
junta. Three degrees and seven companies laters, he's one of
Europe's most respected entrepreneurs. He founded two of Spain's
biggest telcos and his latest venture, FON, is attempting to become
the world's largest Wi-Fi network.

09: Yossi VardiInvestor, Entrepreneur, Tel Aviv

In a world of twentysomething CEOs, 71-year-old Vardi is unique.
Within a year of founding one of Israel's first software companies
he was, aged 27, made director general of the Ministry of
Development. He continues to to invest while hosting conferences
around the world, including DLD, WPP's Stream and Kinnernet.

10: Nicola MendelsohnVice-President Europe, Middle East and Africa, Facebook,
London

A former advertising executive, Mendelsohn is driving Facebook's
mobile growth and revenue: the network generates £1.14 per user in
the region (but £2.64 in the US). She is a co-chair of the UK
Creative Industries Council and a Women's Prize For Fiction board
member.

11: Jonathan IveSenior Vice-President of Design, Apple, California/UK

The designer took on Apple's software last year and delivered
what CEO Tim Cook called "the biggest change" to the mobile
platform since iPhone launched, with the sleek iOS 7. The iPhone 5c
was a return to the playful colour that helped Apple back from the
brink in the 90s.

13: Matt BrittinVice President for Northern and Central Europe, Google,
London

Last May, Brittin faced a very public grilling by the Commons
public accounts committee about the search giant's widely
criticised corporation-tax arrangements. Now he must restore
Google's reputation while overseeing its new London HQ, due open in
2017.

Xavier Niel, entrepreneur and CSO of Iliad, makes number 14 on our list of digital influencers

One of the heroes of the Paris tech community, billionaire Niel
has championed a digital economy that has created net giants such
as Vente-privee and Criteo. In March 2013 he announced the creation
of 42, a Paris-based tuition-fee academy for coders and
entrepreneurs.

In 2013, Zennström was awarded medals by the
Swedish Crown and Academy of Engineering -- remarkable for a man
once mired in Kazaa-related lawsuits. After launching Skype in 2003
he twice sold the company, for a total of $6bn. In October 2013, he
made a four-fold return on Supercell in just six months.

16: Arkady VolozhFounder, Yandex, Moscow

Computer scientist and serial entrepreneur Volozh founded
Yandex, Russia's biggest search engine, in 1997. The platform has
60 percent of the Russian search market -- Google has about 26.
Together with its other services -- such as online wallet -- it's
Russia's largest tech company by revenue.

Backed by €34m in venture funding from Apex and Index Ventures,
King and its casual, "bite-sized" strategy has dominated social
gaming on Facebook since it exiled itself from Yahoo! New games are
built in no more than three months by three people. There are
rumours of an IPO in 2014.

In 2013 the Netherlands' EU commissioner set out plans for the
Telecoms Single Market, which attempted to guarantee net access,
launched a Startup Leaders Club with Daniel Ek, Lars Hinrichs,
Joanna Shields and Niklas Zennstrom, and created a €100m
taxpayer-backed fund to invest in startups in the EU.

19: Oliver SchusserSenior Director, iTunes International, London

If Schusser doesn't like your mobile app, it's not going on the
Apple App Store. At a time when companies such as Snapchat and
Supercell -- which are, at their core, app developers -- are
earning huge valuations, Schusser has the power to make or break
high-value businesses.

20: Richard BransonFounder, Virgin Group, London

Virgin Galactic is behind schedule but, after three supersonic
test flights, Branson is confident it will carry passengers in
2014. He invests in tech firms including Square, Pinterest, Hailo
and Codeacademy, and last year he launched B Team, which promotes
sound corporate practices.

21: Paddy CosgraveConference Organiser, Dublin

Four years ago, Dubliner Paddy Cosgrave, then 26, persuaded 150
of the world's top startup CEOs and investors to meet in the Irish
capital. F.ounders now runs alongside the vast Dublin Web Summit,
which is open to the public, and Cosgrave has branched out to New
York and London.

22: Mark ReadStrategy Director, WPP/CEO, WPP Digital, London

Martin Sorrell's chief strategist isn't just continuing WPP's
transition to digital, he's also expanding the business: WPP
Ventures, spun out of its acquisition of AKQA, has invested in
blogging platform Muzy. He is also the brains behind WPP's
acclaimed (un)conference, Stream.

23: Christophe MaireAngel Investor, Berlin

Maire is one of Berlin's superangels and a leading mobile
entrepreneur. He co-founded gate5, a pioneer in mapping, which he
sold to Nokia, and Plazes.com, a check-in service that predated
Foursquare. He was an early investor in Instagram rival EyeEm and
has made investments in 3D-video messaging platform Zoobe.

24: Jimmy WalesFounder, The Wikimedia Foundation, London

The Wikipedia founder is dedicated to maintaining an open web
and has given 680 million people (and counting) free mobile access
to his encyclopedia through Wikipedia Zero. Wales also chairs a new
mobile network, The People's Operator, that donates funds to
charities.

Steffi Cerny, cofounder of the DLD conference, is number 25 in our list of digital influencers.

A former journalist, Steffi Czerny launched the DLD conference
in 2005 and continues to bring together a diverse mix of speakers
and guests, rolling out the concept to events such as DLD Women and
DLD Moscow. One day she hopes Jeff Bezos will attend DLD.

The Oxford professor became director of the Wellcome Trust last
year and warned of the global threat of antibiotics resistance.
Farrar, who's penned over 450 papers and chairs a consortium
working to share data, wants tech innovators to help fight
infectious disease witht he trust's £750 million pa kitty.

27: Markus "Notch" PerssonGame Developer, Minecraft, Stockholm

A game developer for five years at King, Persson became a gaming
sensation after creating Minecraft in 2011. In two years
the game has sold over 30 million copies and developed a cult
following. A tweet to his 1.5 million followers can be all the
marketing a new game needs.

Got a great idea for a TED talk? Giussani is the man to pitch. A
former journalist, the 50-year-old Swiss scours the world for
compelling ideas, working with speakers to hone their thoughts into
18-minute talks, and building one of the largest conference brands
in the world.

29: Hermann HauserDirector, Amadeus Capital Partners, Cambridge

Thirty years after cofounding Acorn, Hauserm 65, drives
innovation: his stakes include ARM, plastic electronics company
Plastic Logic and eye-tracking firm Tobii. He now focuses his time
and investment on ubiquitous computing and machine learning.

30: Mike LynchFounder, Autonomy, Cambridge

Legal battles about his sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for
£8bn mean that Lynch's influence has waned, but he remains one of
Britain's wealthiest tech investors. In 2013 he raised a £1bn fund
-- backing cyber-security firm Darktrace and augmented reality app
Neurence.

31: Jacques-Antoine GranjonInvestor, Paris

Granjon founded flash-sales site Vente-privee in 2001. Since
then he has built a billion-dollar business, inspiring countless
imitators, especially in the US. His reported $600m net worth also
makes him one of France's top business angels -- in 2013 hd backed
3D modeller Sketchfab and financial dashboard Sush.io

32: Eben UptonCEO, Raspberry Pi Foundation, Cambridge

Upton wanted to give today's children what the BBC Micro gave
him in the 80s: a cheap way into programming. The Raspberry Pi
Foundation has sold 2.3 million of its £16 microcomputers -- all
made in Britain. A hit with hobbyists and children, the Pi is an
educational tool in the developing world.

33: Tim Berners-LeeHead of the World Wide Web Consortium, Boston

In the 25 years since Berners-Lee created the web at Cern in
Switzerland he has stayed involved in its management with the World
Wide Web Consortium. Last October the Open Data Institute, which he
cofounded in late 2012, launched 13 global hubs to support several
open-data projects.

34: Reshma SohoniPartner, Seedcamp, London

Sohoni has invested in tens of startups as partner while also
advising Credo Ventures, a VC fund focusing on east European
startups, London property service Home on Demand and social-media
aggregator Soup. Sohoni, formerly of Vodafone, is supporting east
London talent at Hackney's Startup Kitchen.

35: Loic Le MeurConference Organiser, San Francisco

Le Meur has sold four companies -- the most recent acquired by
Twitter aggregator HootSuite after several incarnations -- but its
annual Parisian tech event, LeWeb, that made him a key presence in
European tech. This year's was the tenth and there is now a second
LeWeb in London.

36: Sherry CoutuEntrepreneur/Investor, Cambridge

Awarded a CBE in 2013, the Canadian angel investor has continued
to advise firms, evangelise about European tech and maintain close
links on boards, in schools across universities, Silicon Valley
Comes to the UK, which she has run for the past decade, connects
entrepreneurs and investors.

37: Dan CobleyManaging Director, Google UK, London

Cobley is a marketer with a physics degree who had senior roles
at Pepsi, Ask Jeeves and Capital One Europe before moving to Google
in 2006. As MD of the web giant's largest market outside in the US,
he is crucial to its expansion plans. Just don't ask him about its
policies on taxes and copyright.

38: Lukasz GadowskiEntrepreneur/Investor, Berlin

Lukasz Gadowski's incubator Team Europe has founded some of
Berlin's best-known startups, including advertising platform
SponsorPlay, e-commerce firm Mister Spex and food service
Lieferheld. THe incubator's current standout success is Delivery
Hero, an online food-delivery platform.

39: Martin LorentzonCofounder, Spotify Stockholm

As the other half of Spotify, Lorentzon keeps a lower profile
than cofounder Daniel Ek. The company's chairman is a trained
economist and focuses on strategy and operations. Lorentzon
engineered a £170m round of financing last November, which valued
Spotify at £2.5bn.

40: Marc SimonciniInvestor, Jaina Capital, Paris

In 2013 Simoncini exited one of France's most successful
businesses, the online dating service Meetic. Through his company,
Jaina Capital, he is now one of France's biggest investors, with
key stakes in Made.com, mobile payments platform Zooz, and
home-security firm MyFox.

41: Mikael HedCEO, Rovio, Helsinki

Angry Birds continues to spread its wings: a Mario
Kart version came out in December; its soft drinks now outsell
Coca-Cola in RUssia and Finland; and a movie is due soon. Peter
Vesterbacka is the conference-friendly face of the company but it's
Mikael Hed, Rovio's CEO, who is steering the company to world
domination.

42: One DirectionTwitter Stars, London

Three of Twitter's five most popular tweets of 2013 cam from pop
stars One Direction. One was a photo of Harry Styles sleeping,
retweeted 339,388 times at the time of writing. Beliebers and
Little Monster used to be the gold standard of devoted online
followings. The 18m-strong Directioners now rule.

43: Philipp MoehringAngellist, London

After being a key part of the startup accelerator Seecamp,
Moehring has observed many of Europe's most exciting businesses
firsthand. In January he announced he'll be using that expertise to
run the European arm of the influential AngelList, the Californian
startup that's part social network, part fund-raising platform.

44: Risto SiilasmaaChairman and interim CEO, Nokia, Helsinki

The Finnish company, which sold its phone business to Microsoft,
now has another opportunity to reinvent itself. With a maps
division that has the lion's share of the car industry as clients,
thousands of patents, a vast division selling services to telcos,
Siilasmaa sees a world with billions of connected devices and
sensors.

45: Errol DamelinFounder, Wonga, London

Last year was one of transition for Damelin and his pay-day
lender Wonga -- after five years as chief exec he became part-time
chairman. Rumours of an IPO persist and more acquisitions are
expected after Wonga made its biggest buy ever last October.

46: Natalie MassenetFounder, Net-A-Porter, London

In 2013 Massenet became chairman of the British Fashion Council,
where her aim is to encourage tech-based businesses. She has
overseen her first London Fashion Week, expanded Net-a-Porter into
China and has moved into content via digital mag, The
Edit, and shoppable print title, Porter.

47: Shakil KhanEntrepreneur/Mentor/Investor, London

Shakil Khan combines his roaming role as head of special
projects at Spotify with his angel investments. His role as an
adviser to Nick d'Aloisio, and as investor in Summly, paid off when
it was bought by Yahoo! He also invested in YPlan and DueDil, as
well as launching Bitcoin news-site CoinDesk.

48: Cem SertogluPartner, Earlybird Venture Capital, Istanbul

As a partner at influential Earlybird Venture Capital and via
his own Young Turk Ventures, Sertoglu has invested in some of
Turkey's most successful startups, including GittiGidiyor (acquired
by eBay in 2011) and meal delivery service Yeme Sepeti. His
portfolio includes idemama.com and Vivense.

49: Noam Bardin/Uri LevineFounders, Waze, Tel Aviv

It's been a big year for the men driving Waze. Last June, the
crowdsourced traffic-dodging maps app sold to Google for $1bn in
one of Israel's biggest tech exits. Levine is now an investor in
startups, including public transport app Moovit, hotel-reservations
site Roomer and the crowdsourced money-saving app
FeeX.

50: John and Patrick CollisonCofounders, Stripe, San Francisco/Limerick

The Limerick-born brothers sold their first startup for £3m in
2008, and their second is changing how we pay for services online.
Stripe, backed by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, processes millions of
payments a day in the US and UK. Recent funding valued it at
$1.7bn.

51: Jay BregmanFounder & CEO, Hailo, London

Black-cab app Hailo had a big 2013: after raising $30m
from investors including Union Square Ventures, the company
launched in New York to take on the well-established Uber. The app
already has 13,000 London cabbies -- about half -- signed up. Next
stop: the rest of the world, with Hailo Anywhere.

52: Sonali De RyckerVC, London

A Harvard Business School alumna and former banker,
Sonali De Rycker is one of Accel's leading London partners. In a
sign of Europe's increasing global importance, the firm, which has
stakes in Hailo Supercell, Mind Candy, Spotify and Wonga, raised
over half of its new £290m European fund from US investors.

Whetstone has run Google's comms since 2005, after serving as
political secretary to former Conservative Party leader Michael
Howard. The 46-year-old remains close to senior Tories and is
married to Steve Hilton, the former director of strategy for David
Cameron.

54: James DysonFounder, Dyson, Wiltshire

Billionaire Dyson continues to power innovation, whether through
his own lab -- he will be reinventing the vacuum cleaner yet again
in 2014 with filter-free Cinetic -- or through his foundation,
which last year awarded £30,000 to the exoskeleton project Titan
Arm.

55: Carlos EspinalPartner, Seedcamp, London

As one of the senior figure at startup accelerator Seedcamp,
Espinal is a key part of a team that attracts the smartest and most
ambitious founder sin Europe. A prolific investor, he has made more
than 100 early stage investments in companies such as TransferWise,
EDITD and Teddy the Guardian.

56: Peter ReadAngel Investor, London

An investor in and advisor to some of Berlin's leading tech --
such as Instagram rival EyeEm, MoviePilot and Gidsy -- Read has
become a key name in the capital's tech scene. He counts Skype and
LOVEFiLM among his exits, and is also a backer of MyHeritage,
YPlan, Songkick and Citymapper.

Their influence comes not only through investment firm Passion
Capital, which has investments including GoCardless, EyeEm and
research platform Mendeley, but also through their incubator White
Bear Yard in Clerkenwell.

58: Alexander Ljung/Eric WahlforssFounders, Soundcloud, Berlin

SoundCloud reached new heights in 2013. Users now upload 12
hours of content a minute, and 250 million use the platform each
month. It launched a service for artists in March, catering for its
original market. This platform may give the city its next major
exit

59: Didac LeeCEO, Inspirit; Board Member FC Barcelona, Barcelona

As a board member in charge of new tech, Lee wants to make FCB
successful on social media -- the club has the world's biggest
fanbase on Facebook (over 49 million) and Twitter. Lee, 40, also
heads Inspirit, a portfolio of seven tech forms that employs 400
people in seven countries.

Founded in 2007, the fast growing car-sharing service launched
in Germany in 2013 -- its tenth territory -- and now has five
million members. It has become a pan-european company with more
than a million monthly users.

61: Dimitry GrishinCofounder, Mail.ru, Moscow

Grishin made his name as cofounder and CEO of the Mail.ru Group,
the word's seventh largest internet business. The company operates
Russia's most popular email service, social networks and two IM
services. He also runs personal-robotics investment fund, Grishin
Robotics.

62: Klaus HommelsVC, Zurich

Zurich-based venture capitalist Klaus Hommels has an enviable
track record. He sits on the board of Spotify and has invested in
Facebook, Airbnb and Skype. in the past year he has participated in
funding rounds for payments firm Taulia (£12m) and NumberFour
(£24m), a platform for creating apps for small businesses.

63: Jonnie GoodwinInvestor, Lepe Partners, London

Goodwin joined Brent Hoberman to form investment firm
PROfounders Capital in 2009 and is his partner in Founders Forum.
He runs Lepe Partners, a media-focused merchant bank. The group
makes wide-ranging investments and acts as a dealmaker across print
radio and television.

64: David CleevelyInvestor; cofounder, Centre for Science and Policy,
Cambridge

Cleevely was awarded a CBE in 2013 for his services to
innovation and technology. Among them, founding telecoms companies
Analysys and Abcam, chairing Cambridge Wireless and cofounding and
chairing investment group Cambridge Angels.

65: Jens BegemannCEO, Wooga, Berlin

Begemann cofounded social games developer Wooga in January 2009.
It now has more than 50 million active users playing titles such as
Bubble Island and Diamond Dash; in 2013, its
latest hit Jelly Splash reached one million users in five
days. Next up: cracking Asia, with Jelly Splash on Korean
social network KakaoTalk.

66: Liam CaseyFounder and CEO, PCH International, Cork

When companies such as Apple and Beats by Dre design a new
product, they meet Casey, 47, to work out how they make it. With
5,000 direct employees and a vast supply chain network in Shenzehn,
Casey has been dubbed "Mr China" -- impressive for someone who
doesn't speak the language.

Since stepping down as CEO of OLX in 2012, 39-year-old Grinda
invests full-time, often from the Dominican Republic. His portfolio
includes BrightRoll, PeoplePerHour and invino, and he'll be a happy
man if Chinese giant Alibaba Group -- in which he is an investor --
floats in 2014.

68: Dan and Sam HouserFounders, Rockstar Games, New York

Console gaming is back, thanks to the PS4 and Xbox One -- but
also to one last generation title. Grand Theft Auto V
earned £600 million within three days of release, becoming the
fastest selling entertainment product in history. The Houser
brothers (here because of their London roots) steer the
franchise.

69: Sebastian SiemiatkowskiCEO and cofounder, Klarna, Stockholm

In December, Klarna bought rival Sofort for £90m, boosting its
share of Europe's e-commerce market to ten percent. Siemiatkowski
thinks the company could become the main payment provider in Europe
and even rival PayPal, Mastercard and Visa.

70: Oskar HartmannFounder, Kupivip, Moscow

Previously a consultant at Boston Consulting Group in Russia,
German-born Hartmann founded Russian e-commerce company KupiVIP, a
shopping club with almost ten million users that offers discounted
name brands. He cofounded Fast Lane Venture and seeks an IPO
sometime this week.

71: Adam FisherVC, Tel Aviv

Fisher is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he
focuses on European and Israeli investments. He has a stake in many
of Israel's fastest-growing startups, including Wix, BillGuard and
MyHeritage. His exits include Soluto and intucell, acquired by
Cisco for £290m after two years.

72: Sina AfraCofounder, Markafoni; Investor, Istanbul

Serial entrepreneur and investor Afra has steered Markafoni to
become Turkey's market leader in private shopping and flash sales.
The site now has versions in Australia, Poland, Greece and Ukraine
and was, in 2011, majority acquired by the Naspers Group, which
reportedly valued the platform at £120m.

73: Eric CarreelCofounder and Chairman, Withings, Paris

Withings' wearable sensors -- such as its Blood Pressure Monitor
-- have made Carreel's Paris-based startup a name in digital
health. An engineer by trade, Carreel, 54, also founded 3D-printing
platform Sculpteo and VoIP firm Invoxia, and he advises the French
government on the digital economy.

74: Kristian SegerstraleInvestor, California

When social games company Playfish was bought by Electronic Arts
in 2009, Segerstrale swapped South Kensington for San Francisco. He
left EA last March and now invests through his firm Initial Capital
-- which he led a smart seed round in Helsinki games developer
Supercell, bought by SoftBank at a $3bn valuation.

75: Markus BeckedahlFounder, Netzpolitik.org, Berlin

Beckedahl has been a leading voice on politics and technology
since 2002 -- he led the campaign against the German government;s
surveillance in the wake of the Snowden revelation. The
Berlin-based re:publica, which Beckedahl cofounded, is one of
Europe's largest tech conferences.

76: Alex HoyeInvestor; cofounder, The Faction Collective and Ice,
London

Hoye started out at Disney before becoming a consultant at
McKinsey, cofounding Golndustry and The Faction Collective. His ICE
group brings together founders for mutual support and foreign
trips; angel investments include Brainient, Skimlinks and
MyBuilder.

77: Mary EkelandVC, Elaia Partners, Paris

As a partner at Elaia, Ekeland made early stage plays in Teads,
Criteo and Scoop.it. In her role as co-president of lobbying
organisation France Digitale, she was one of 12 industry leaders
who met French President Hollande in December 2013, to discuss how
the government might further support startups.

Acton Smith, 39, continues to grow the Moshi Monsters
empire: the children's game now reaches more than 80 million users
and licensing deals range from Nintendo DS game Katsuma
Unleashed to Moshi Monsters: The Movie. Next up: new
Mind Candy titles in 2014.

79: Thor FridrikssonCEO, Plain Vanilla, San Francisco/Reykjavik

Following Finland's Rovio and Supercell, Iceland is the coming
man, led by Plain Vanilla, the studio behind QuizUp, which
won 3.5 million users in tis first three weeks, Fridriksson founded
the company in 2010; in December he raised £13.5m from Sequoia and
other investors.

80: Max HoleChairman/CEO, Universal Music Group International,
London

In January 2013, Hole took over the non-US part of the company
that produces one in three of all recordings sold today. He has
been involved with the careers of Bon Jovi and Amy Winehouse,
Brought The Beatles and Queen to Universal and secured its
partnership with The Voice.

81: Mike BrackenHead of the Government Digital Service, London

The ex-director of the Guardian's digital development
team heads a unit of coders brought together in 2011 to launch a
hub for all government services, from driver's licences to tax
credits. The site now gets a billion views a year. Bracken is
central to the coalition's "digital first" initiative.

82: Martha Lane FoxEntrepreneur/Legislator, London

In 2013 the cofounder of Lastminute.com became the youngest
member of the House of Lords, founded the philanthropic arm of
Founders Forum and stepped down as the UK's Digital Champion. Her
charity, GO On UK, is tackling computer illiteracy and follows her
role in setting up the GDS.

83: Martin ClarkeEditor, Mail Online, London

The likes of BuzzFeed and Vice may be getting hype to match
their numbers, but one European publisher is beating them: Mail
Online, which in September 2013, recorded 161m uniques. In
December, BuzzFeed logged 130m. As Mail Online's publisher and
editor-in-chief, Clarke now runs the world's biggest news site.

84: Gonzalo Martin-VillaChief Executive, Wayra Worldwide, Madrid

From his base in Madrid, Matin-Villa heads Telefonica's
accelerator network Wayra and oversees 300 startups in 12
countries. With hubs in Europe and South America, it backs teams
with around £25,000 in return for five to ten per cent equity. In
2013 Wayra's startups reached £31m in funding.

85: Massimo BanziCofounder, Arduino, Lugano

The co-creator of Arduino remains one of the most influential
people in the maker movement. At the last Maker Faire Rome, he
announced Intel Galileo, an Arduino board based on Intel's
architecture. In 2013, he also introduced Arduino Robot, a
programmable bot on wheels.

86: Ciaran O'LearyPartner, Earlybird Venture Capital, Berlin

Although born in Ireland, O'Leary has spent most of his
professional life in Germany -- hence his fondness for Bayern
Munich. At Earlybird he has also become one of Berlin's most active
investors, with stakes in hot properties such as THE Football App,
EyeEm and Wunderlist.

87: Par-Jorgen ParsonPartner, Northzone Capital, Stockholm

Parson is the rock start of Swedish venture capital -- and not
just for the title of the book he co-wrote, Heavy Metal
Management. He was named Investor Of The Year at Investor
Allstars 2013, and his greatest hits include early-stage rounds in
Spotify (he is also a board member), Avito and iZettle.

88: Misha LyalinChairman/CEO Zeptolab, Moscow

Zeptolab is behind the popular Cut the Rope games, a
YouTube channel with more than 100 million views, a TV programme
and a line of toys. Layalin is also a partner at Kite Ventures,
where he invests in consumer internet startups and is on the board
of several gaming and e-commerce companies.

89: Sampo KarjalainenFounder, Protogeo, Helsinki

Habbo Hotel, which launched in 2000m was one of the earliest --
and most successful -- virtual worlds created for kids.
Karjalainen, its Finnish cofounder, left Habbo to found ProtoGeo,
the developer behind fitness-tracking app Moves, which
Apple described as the "surprise hit" of 2013.

90: Mattias MikscheCofounder, Stardoll, Stockholm

Miksche's influence doesn't just come from Stardoll, his virtual
world that has more than 200 million users across the world -- it's
his his links to so many of its star employees: Daniel Ek is a
former CTO, and senior executives at Tumblr, Wrapp, Tictail and
ShapeUp Club have all passed through its doors.

91: Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann SnabeCo-CEOs, SAP, Walldorf

Enterprise software isn't the sexiest, but Walldorf-based SAP is
the third-largest pure software company in the world. McDermott and
Hagemann Snabe have been making inroads into Silicon Valley,
spending $12bn since 2010 on acquiring big companies and $700m on
startups.

Funding Circle has lent more than £206m to small businesses
since launching in 2010. Last October following a £23m funding
round led by Accel Partners, the P2P lender merged with US-based
Endurance Lending Network.

93:Government Communications HeadquartersCloud Storage, Cheltenham

[REDACTED] When Snowden's allegations surfaced, it became clear
that British spooks were monitoring our
telecommunications. [/REDACTED] GCHQ plays a major role in
making our cyber connections safe, using its expertise and
experience.

94: Jean-Baptiste RudelleCofounder and CEO, Criteo, Paris

Rudelle's targeted-advertising firm Criteo went public in
October. The company was the first French IPO on the NASDAQ since
2011, and had a valuation of $2bn. Because he is a market leader in
one of tech's most crowded sectors, his influence is now both
symbolic and financial.

95: Peter WeijmarshausenCEO and Cofounder, Shapeways, New York

Weijmarshausen's mission is to bring 3D printing to the masses.
The Dutchman recently doubled the number of 3D printers in its New
York-based Shapeways factory, on the back of a $30m Series C round
of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz in April 2013.

96: Tom HulmeDesign Director, Ideo, London

Hulme runs OpenIDEO -- the socially focused online community for
designers he founded three years ago. Besides being a Davos Young
Global Leader and prolific conference speaker, he is an active
angel investor, with stakes in YPlan, GoCardless and Massive
Health, among others.

97: Zaryn DentzelCofounder and CEO, Tuenti, Madrid

An American living in Madrid, the 30-year-old oversaw the €70m
sale of Tuenti, the social network he cofounded, to Telefonica in
2010, but continues to innovate as its chief executive. The site
recently launched its own mobile network which includes free calls
and data for Tuenti users.

98: Lars HinrichsInvestor and Entrepreneur, Hamburg

After founding and exiting XING, Germany's equivalent of
LinkedIn, Hinrichs launched HackFwd, a Hamburg based accelerator
fund. Last September he closed HackFwd with a much-admired open
letter about his errors. He's now investing via Cinco Capital --
and has Angela Merkel's ear.

Ticketing site Eventbrite passed £1.2bn in gross sales in 2013.
Visage's job is to keep the company expanding globally; recent
acquisitions of Latin American rival Eventioz and UK-based Lanyrd
-- paid for with another £37m investment round -- are just the
start.

100: Mike ButcherJournalist, TechCrunch, London

A write-up from Butcher -- editor-at-large of TechCrunch Europe
-- can get a startup noticed. TechHub, the London startup space he
cofounded, has developed into an international network --launching
in Bucharest and Berlin. In 2013, TechCrunch launched its Disrupt
Europe conference -- also in Berlin.